BEEP BOOP SPLATCH!Kurzweil K2700
Kurzweil is working on a new
workstation that will feed the cat,
read the kids a bedtime story and
drive you to the supermarket when
you run out of Pom-Bears. Until
then you’ll just have to make do
with the K2700, which does pretty
much everything apart from that.
It has a fully weighted 88-note
keyboard with 256-voice
polyphony, a built-in USB audio
interface and 4.5GB of factory
sounds on board. It might feed the
cat if you ask it really, really nicely.
£tbc / kurzweil.com
IK Uno Synth Pro
You can always rely on IK to come
up with something clever and chic,
no matter how ghastly the state of
the world might be. This year it’s
a very modern-looking analogue
synth with three oscillators, two
filters, an arpeggiator and 64-step
sequencer, and 12 effects including
true analogue overdrive. There’s
also a titchy ‘Desktop’ version for
€400, which lacks proper keys but
has all the same stuff on the inside.
C’mon, first Trump going and now
this? Things are looking up!
€650 / ikmultimedia.comKorg ARP 2600 M
On these pages a year ago we
hailed the launch of the Korg ARP
2600 FS, a remake of one of the
most famous analogue synths of
the ’70s. “Amazing!” gushed the
entire knob-twiddling world, “but
we won’t actually get one because
it’s over three grand and the size of
an adult hippo.” Well now there’s a
new version – and the ‘M’ stands
for “Mmm, that’s a bit more like it”,
because this one’s been shrunk to
60 % of its original size and is about
half the price of the FS model.
£1699 / korg.co.ukRoland Verselab MV-1
Look at all the pretty colours on this
new one-box recording studio from
Roland! It’s got red, blue, purple,
orange, everything! And once
you’ve finished gazing at the 4x4
pad matrix and step sequencer, you
might want to have a look at its
other features – such as an XLR
mic input, 3000 onboard sounds
and a suite of mastering effects, for
covering the whole song-creation
process in one portable unit. Got all
that? Right, now let’s look at the
pretty colours again. Oooh!
£599 / roland.com